--- title: Chris Christie Hits Back at Marco Rubio With Help from Adele description: "Hello Marco, It's Me." canonical: https://time.com/4171247/chris-christie-marco-rubio-adele/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-07T17:17:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T13:52:22.552Z article:section: Politics og:title: Christie Fires Back at Rubio With Help from Adele og:description: "Hello Marco, It's Me." og:url: https://time.com/4171247/chris-christie-marco-rubio-adele/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Christie Fires Back at Rubio With Help from Adele twitter:description: "Hello Marco, It's Me." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Christie Fires Back at Rubio With Help from Adele by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Jan 7, 2016 5:17 PM UTC by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Jan 7, 2016 5:17 PM UTC New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie fired back at Florida Sen. Marco Rubio for a pair of attack ads Rubio’s super PAC released [questioning Christie’s record in his home state.](http://time.com/4166690/marco-rubio-chris-christie-super-pac-ad/) Christie tweeted twice at Rubio in response on Thursday with a play on the English singer Adele’s smash-hit “Hello.” > [](https://twitter.com/ChrisChristie/status/685069500908060673) The video juxtaposes Rubio’s recent comments about Christie with comments Rubio had made in the past praising his leadership in New Jersey. Christie then followed up on the Adele theme tweets with another one—this time a picture captioned, “Hello Marco, It’s Me.” > [](https://twitter.com/ChrisChristie/status/685106037708472320) Rubio and Christie are in competition over establishment voters in the early primary states, especially Iowa and New Hampshire. The two have traded blows over the last couple weeks, with [Christie attacking Rubio’s Senate record last week.](http://time.com/4163171/chris-christie-marco-rubio-attendance/) Expect them to go head-to-head Jan. 14 at the next Republican presidential debate. **Read Next:** [_Christie Bashes Rubio on Attendance Record in Iowa_](http://time.com/4163171/chris-christie-marco-rubio-attendance/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4171247/chris-christie-marco-rubio-adele/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4171247/chris-christie-marco-rubio-adele/"},"headline":"Christie Fires Back at Rubio With Help from Adele","datePublished":"2016-01-07T17:17:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:52:22.552Z","description":"\"Hello Marco, It's Me.\"","url":"https://time.com/4171247/chris-christie-marco-rubio-adele/","keywords":["Chris Christie","2016 Election topic","Sen. Marco Rubio","debate"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/chris-christie/","name":"Chris Christie"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4171247/chris-christie-marco-rubio-adele/","name":"Christie Fires Back at Rubio With Help from Adele"}}]}] ```